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In this study, we investigated the motion of active SiO2-Pt Janus particles in the 2D bath of smaller silica tracers dispersed in varying areal densities. The effect on the organization of the tracer particles around the active JPs was also…

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We numerically examine the driven transport of an overdamped self-propelled particle through a two-dimensional array of circular obstacles. A detailed analysis of transport quantifiers (mobility and diffusivity) has been performed for two…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-10-16 Shubhadip Nayak , Sohom Das , Poulami Bag , Tanwi Debnath , Pulak K. Ghosh

We elucidate the multi-particle transport of pair- and spin-tunnelings in strongly correlated interfaces. Not only usual single-particle tunneling but also interaction-induced multi-particle tunneling processes naturally arise from a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-03-20 Hiroyuki Tajima , Daigo Oue , Mamoru Matsuo

A number of microorganisms leave persistent trails while moving along surfaces. For single-cell organisms, the trail-mediated self-interaction will influence its dynamics. It has been discussed recently [Kranz \textit{et al.} Phys. Rev.…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-06-07 W. Till Kranz , Ramin Golestanian

We explore the dynamics of a tracer in an active particle harmonic chain, investigating the influence of interactions. Our analysis involves calculating mean-squared displacements (MSD) and space-time correlations through Green's function…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-07 Subhajit Paul , Abhishek Dhar , Debasish Chaudhuri

We derive a mode-coupling theory (MCT) to describe the dynamics of tracer particles in dense systems of active Brownian particles (ABPs) in two spatial dimensions. The ABP undergo translational and rotational Brownian dynamics, and are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-11-03 Julian Reichert , Suvendu Mandal , Thomas Voigtmann

We study the dynamics of a tracer particle subject to a constant driving force $E$ in a one-dimensional lattice gas of hard-core particles whose transition rates are symmetric. We show that the mean displacement of the driven tracer grows…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 S. F. Burlatsky , G. Oshanin , M. Morea , W. P. Reinhardt

In this work we derive and analyze coarse-grained descriptions of self-propelled particles with selective attraction-repulsion interaction, where individuals may respond differently to their neighbours depending on their relative state of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-05-02 Robert Grossmann , Lutz Schimansky-Geier , Pawel Romanczuk

Driven particle transport in crowded and confining environments is fundamental to diverse phenomena across physics, chemistry, and biology. A main objective in studying such systems is to identify novel emergent states and phases of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-23 Annika Vonhusen , Sören Schweers , Artem Ryabov , Philipp Maass

The flow-driven transport of interacting micron-sized particles occurs in many soft matter systems spanning from the translocation of proteins to moving emulsions in microfluidic devices. Here we combine experiments and theory to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-11-16 Dominik Lips , Eric Cereceda-López , Antonio Ortiz-Ambriz , Pietro Tierno , Artem Ryabov , Philipp Maass

Microorganisms often encounter strong confinement and complex hydrodynamic flows while navigating their habitats. Combining finite-element methods and stochastic simulations, we study the interplay of active transport and heterogeneous…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-05 Pallabi Das , Mirko Residori , Axel Voigt , Suvendu Mandal , Christina Kurzthaler

Tracer diffusion in crowded environments is central to many biological and soft matter systems, but quantitative frameworks for linking tracer motion to environmental structure remain limited. Here, we study the transport of rigid tracers…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-07 Jinseok Lee , Tong Lin , Mengyang Gu , Yimin Luo

In this work, we study the dynamics of a single active Brownian particle, as well as the collective behavior of interacting active Brownian particles, in a fluctuating heterogeneous environment. We employ a variant of the diffusing…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-01-05 S. M. J. Khadem , N. H. Siboni , S. H. L. Klapp

We consider the diffusion and spreading of chainlike molecules on solid surfaces. We first show that the steep spherical cap shape density profiles, observed in some submonolayer experiments on spreading polymer films, imply that the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 T. Hjelt , S. Herminghaus , T. Ala-Nissila , S. C. Ying

Intracellular transport processes driven by molecular motors can be described by stochastic lattice models of self-driven particles. Here we focus on bidirectional transport models excluding the exchange of particles on the same track. We…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 M. Ebbinghaus , C. Appert-Rolland , L. Santen

Diffusion of tracer particles in the cytoplasm of mammalian cells is often anomalous with a marked heterogeneity even within individual particle trajectories. Despite considerable efforts, the mechanisms behind these observations have…

Biological Physics · Physics 2020-08-05 Adal Sabri , Xinran Xu , Diego Krapf , Matthias Weiss

A topic of intense current investigation pursues the question how the highly crowded environment of biological cells affects the dynamic properties of passively diffusing particles. Motivated by recent experiments we report results of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-28 Surya K. Ghosh , Andrey G. Cherstvy , Denis S. Grebenkov , Ralf Metzler

We explore the dynamical transport of an impurity between different embedding majority species which are spatially separated in a double well. The transfer and storage of the impurity is triggered by dynamically changing the interaction…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-11-30 Judith Becker , Maxim Pyzh , Peter Schmelcher

We study a minimal lattice model which describes bidirectional transport of "particles" driven along a one dimensional track, as is observed in microtubule based, motor protein driven bidirectional transport of cargo vesicles, lipid bodies…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-09-29 Sudipto Muhuri , Lenin Shagolsem , Madan Rao

In active matter systems, self-propelled particles can self-organize to undergo collective motion, leading to persistent dynamical behavior out of equilibrium. In cells, cytoskeletal filaments and motor proteins self-organize into complex…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-05-19 Jeffrey M. Moore , Tyler N. Thompson , Matthew A. Glaser , Meredith D. Betterton